Transcallosal transfer of information and functional asymmetry of the human brain

Laterality

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-74

  Nowicka, Anna ^a   Tacikowski, Pawel ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Interhemispheric transmission; Lateralisation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 78650264422     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500903154231     Document Type: Article

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